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Holme Eden Abbey was an abbey in
Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...
,
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. The current building (built 1833–37) is a
Grade II* listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.


History

It was designed in 1833 by John Dobson of Newcastle for a Peter Dixon (a cotton mill owner at
Warwick Bridge Warwick Bridge is a village in the City of Carlisle district of the county of Cumbria, England. It forms part of a small urban area which includes the villages of Corby Hill and Little Corby. Warwick Bridge lies within the civil parish of Wet ...
). It is said to have seven entrances, 52 chimney pots and 365 windows in the manner of a Calendar house. In 1875 it was sold to a Wiliam Watson. From 1921 until 1983 it served as an abbey to Benedictine nuns. It then served as an exclusive old persons home before being converted into an award-winning development of twelve apartments. The old walled garden was developed with homes built inside it.
Sir Maurice Douglas Warburton Elphinstone Sir Douglas Maurice Warburton Elphinstone, 5th Baronet, TD, FFA, FRSE (13 April 1909 – 5 December 1995) was a Scottish baronet. Life He was born on 13 April 1909 in Eynsford in Kent, the eldest son of Rev Canon Maurice Curteis Elphinstone, ...
died here on 5 December 1995.


See also

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Grade II* listed buildings in the City of Carlisle There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the City of Carlisle in Cumbria. List of buildings See also * Grad ...
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Listed buildings in Wetheral Wetheral is a civil parish in the City of Carlisle, Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains 104 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, eleven are listed at Grade I, the highest of the th ...


References

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